Getting Started

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Welcome! JUST RUN is ongoing throughout the school year. Registration for the 2019-2020 school year begins 8/1/2019.

This is how to get a JUST RUN Program up and running.

We are pleased that you will be implementing JUST RUN and appreciate your desire to promote youth fitness. Your enthusiasm and commitment will ensure your success!

Keep in mind the goals of the JUST RUN program – an opportunity for children to learn about running and physical activity in a fun environment, one which encourages pride in accomplishment. There is a link between their lifetime health and being active & eating properly. It beomes their choice.

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Submit your School/Volunteer Application online. After your application has been approved and entered into the database you will be sent a confirmation email. Then you will be able to access your school/group.

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Only one coordinator needs to submit an application for a school. Additional teachers, and their classes, can be listed on the coordinator's submission. Email the program director if additional teachers would like to participate at a later date.

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From the Home page of the site — click the Log in to add miles & deeds green button in the header. From the Run Across the USA page — click the blue Login button. Or go to http://app.justrun.org/login.

Enter your email and password and then click the small Login button.

Now you can add students, add mileage and deeds earned, record and compare mile times, and view incentive awards earned.

All leaders can take advantage of the printable online mileage incentive cards to present to their students for designated mileage goal achievements.

For leaders in locales sponsored by the JUST RUN program (Monterey, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz counties in CA) the INCENTIVE SCHEDULE IS AS FOLLOWS.

A Mile Marker chart, bookmark, and plastic foot will be provided when they begin the program, followed by mileage tokens when they reach their goals of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 50, 75, and 100 miles.

A 30 inch ball-chain necklace will be sent along with the same number of designated #5 tokens. So that the children can proudly wear and keep track of their earned mileage incentives.

The children receive wristbands when they reach accumulated mileage of 25, 50, 75, and 100.

JUST RUN shirt awards are provided for children accumulating 50 miles of running/walking and have completed 26 Just Deeds, the good citizenship component of the program. Be sure to enter sizes for your children.

Incentives will be sent to the school's coordinator following the 1st and 15th of each month.

Please note: Names, mileage, and Just Deeds are deleted on August 1st in preparation for the new school year. Coordinators must re-submit a new School/Organization Application each year that their school or group would like to participate.

First Session

When you begin the program, give an introduction and describe the features of JUST RUN and the goals of the program - to get fitter and healthier while developing positive lifelong habits and having fun! If you have incentives to offer, let them know what they will receive when they reach certain mileage goals. Many schools do not give incentives; they want the kids to learn it's all about developing healthy lifestyles, not getting "stuff." However, we all know that kids like rewards! Very often the school's PTA will donate funding for incentives for "such a great cause." Also, many businesses have donated incentives; they like the idea of contributing to youth fitness. Sometimes schools without funds make their own....colored ribbons to designate specific mileage accomplishments, for example. On the website, in the Foms section, there are downloadable Mileage Incentive Award Cards that you can print and award to the children when they reach mileage goals. Remember that praise is MOST important.

Refer to the Leader Manual and the website for ideas to make your program diverse and unpredictable! 15 minutes of intense drills and relays count for a mile. (The drills and relays are explained in the manual/website and shown in one of the website training videos.) Also, walking for 15 minutes counts for a mile as well. Give them the Club Cards that you can print out and, possibly, laminate. Give them the log sheet (in the forms section) that they can take home for additional mileage. If the kids run with a parent they get double mileage.This encourages family participation. Distribute the Mileage Achievement Charts that can be posted in the classroom or at home.

Be sure that the children know that they are trying to reach a group goal, to "run across the United States" by the end of the year and they must all work together to achieve it. Instruct them on how to log onto the website to find their own personal pages; their pages state their own accomplishments as well as showing the map of their virtual journey across the USA and Europe, with links to the places through which they run. Many schools purchase a large laminated map of the USA and put a marker on the distance/location reached by each group. For example, you could have a large pin for Groups A, B, C, and D. Move the markers on a regular basis so everyone can see how the groups are doing....this creates some great competition among the groups!